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Elgar's Cipher Letter to Dorabella
Eric Sams, 1970. The Musical Times 111(1524): 151-154.
Proposes a substitution reading in which phonetic shorthand expands 87 symbols into 109 letters of English.
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The best-known claimed solution.
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Sams, E. (1970). Elgar's Cipher Letter to Dorabella. The Musical Times 111(1524): 151-154. https://doi.org/10.2307/956733
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Sams, Eric. “Elgar's Cipher Letter to Dorabella.” The Musical Times 111(1524): 151-154 (1970). https://doi.org/10.2307/956733.